You Might be a Car Modeler if…

You’re on a first name basis with every hobby shop owner in your home town.

Your model car collection is worth more than your house.

Your model car collection takes up more space than your house.

You are on Revell-Monogram’s Christmas card list.

You just bought five model cars you will never build, but they cost just $5.00 each.

You miss your anniversary because it is on the same day as a big model car contest.

Your inventory is bigger than your local hobby shops.

You have an insurance policy on your model car collection, but not on the family silver.

You only consider purchasing a new car if there is a kit available so you can build a little on to match.

You are caught hanging around the fingernail polish display at your local drug store for no apparent reason.

Your car quits running due to a blown radiator hose and you are walking because you spent your last dime on some braided model radiator hose that cost twice as much as a real one.

You have a special account at your local hardware store just for flat black spray paint.

Your spouse threatons divorce over the modeling junk and your greatest fear is the realization that this is a community property state and you KNOW that she’ll sell her half of your collection for fifty cents apiece at her mother’s garage sale just for spite.

You can’t see the “wall” on your trophy wall.

by Tony Willing as it appeared in the Music City Modelers September Newsletter.

This column originally appeared in the Puget Sound Auto Modelers Association

Your wife comes back from one hour photo mad, because the pictures she thought were suppose to be of the dream vaction were all pictures of cars at 100 different angles.(Submitted by: Cory Schlesinger)

They wont get sideswiped when you leave them parked in front of your house. (Submitted by Justin Santos)

you have the scale model of your own car on the dashboard of the real thing, and everybody that sees it asks you where you found a model of your car exactly. (Submitted by Stan Jacobson)

your houseguests get high when they walk through the door.

you build your first model car from sheet metal & wire made of silver & 14k gold because you cant buy a kit for the model you want. (Submitted by: Darren Cole)

YOU’RE A BACHELOR AND YOU OWN A THREE BEDROOM HOUSE WITH A FULL BASEMENT …..YET YOU SLEEP ON THE COUCH BECAUSE OF THE MODEL CARS TAKE UP THE RSET OF THE HOUSE. ( Submitted by Scott Bedell)

Your wife packs you a sack lunch before you leave to go to the local hobby shop (Submitted by: Harold Sullins)

When your wife sets you out at the model shop, she asks what time the store closes. (Submitted by: Harold Sullins)

Your wife tells you she wants to convert your model room to a nursery for the new baby because there’s no other space in the house, and you tell her you’ll have to think it over (true story).

You’ve ever gone to an important business meeting with paint on your hands. (Submitted by Ken Hart)

You’ve ever tried to remove the top from a bottle of super glue with your teeth. (Submitted by Ken Hart)

You’ve ever wound up with super glue in a place where it was definitely never intended to be (see above). (Submitted by Ken Hart)

Your co-workers think you’re strange because you play with “toys.” (Submitted by Ken Hart)

You’ve ever traded shifts with a co-worker so you could attend a model contest. (Submitted by Ken Hart)

you walk into a hobby shop and everyone yells your name like they do Norm on Cheers. (Submitted by Jai Johnston)

your home is divided up as such, 25% built cars,25%unbuiltcars,25%parts dept.,20%work area,and 5% for the family (Submitted by Jerry Santora)

You will not run the vacuum cleaner for fear of sucking up that part you droped last month! (Submitted by: John J. Archambault “Da Frenchman”)

you work on your latest model project while on break at the office. (Submitted by: Russell Piotrowski)

everytime you go to a local hobby shop,dollar signs appear in the owners eyes,and you can see him thinking.”It’s gonna be a great day” (Submitted by: Steve Cooper)

You refer to all full size cars as the 1:1 version (Submitted by: Aaron Meury)

You call off sick from work so you can stay home and work on your models. (Submitted by Richard j.Chaffee)

You leave home and any one wanting to contact you calls the Hobby Shops first. (Submitted by Eric Duncan)

If you treat your cars better than your children. (Submitted by Michael Yule)

Your wife is upset because the new baby,s room is not as big as the new hobby room. (Submitted by Duane Wilson)

YOU HAVE MORE MODEL CARS THAN YOU HAVE HAIR ON YOUR ARMS . (Submitted by RICKY MCINTYRE)

You laugh your self silly reading these jokes and your wife just shakes her head and “tsks” (Submitted by Eric W. Sprague)

you’ve ever ordered parts for your real car from revell-monogram

you’ve ever touched your real car up with model car paint

you’ve ever broken a windsheild and though sure youd have to buy a big piece of glass with all the windows(like model cars)

if you have a replica of your daily drive mounted on the dash

if you’ve been divorced because your cars got more attention than your wife did

if you’ve ever tried to repair your real car with plastic cement

if your restoring a real muscle car and call testors to buy paint

if you use PPG paint products on a model car

if you buy use tire wet on your model car

if you wax your models more than your real car

if your car goes directly to the nearest hobby store when you turn it on

if you build a new house and have a room designated for model car building

if the above mentioned room is the biggest room in the house

if youve ever tried to make a part to fix a real car oput of the scrap plastic from a kit

if you havent seen your floor since the day the carpet was laid

if you actually read pages like this (Submitted by Jonathan Absher)

if you have ever dreamed of how your model is going to look……then…..after the dream at 5:00 in the morning……you get up and do the painting/custom work you dreamed about. (Submitted by Marcus Jennings)

my wife doesn’t make me sell one I already have to buy another one. (Submitted by Randall Floyd)

you have more scar tissue than finger prints (Submitted by Scott Imboden)

You don’t know you’ve cut yourself until you see blood on the model! (True Story!) (Submitted by Justin Santos)

YOU TALK YOUR WIFE INTO GOING TO A MODEL SHOW ON “HER” BIRTHDAY {TRUE STORY} (Submitted by Tim Daniels)

YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS HAS CAR AND MODELER IN IT !!!!!!!!!! (Submitted by Tim Daniels)

IF YOU MAKE YOUR WIFE BUY FINGERNAIL POLISH SO THE CASHIER DOESN’T LOOK AT YOU FUNNY {SUBMITTED BY TIM DANIELS}

You go to the hobby shop for one small bottle of paint, and end up spending over $100.00 (True Story, and my wife helped me pick things out too boot!) (Submitted by Jerry Sutton)

you don’t go to THAT department store anymore, because they stopped selling models… (Submitted by Duke Douglas)

you’re on your fourth dremel tool, but you still have your first hammer…. (Submitted by Ed Huenemann)

you are a primary stockholder in a new company called “Helping Hands, Inc”. (Submitted by Ed Huenemann)

If you’ve ever drove yourself (and everyone else in the house) half nuts running outside to your 1:1 car constantly to make sure you’ve got the contours just right on the model your scratch building. (Submitted by Scott M. Taylor)

I’ve put a small engine in a 1955 prostreet model (49.99) to enter model drag races.I’m only 12 years old. (Submitted by Tommy G)

you go to cruise nights with a camera and afterwards go to the hobby store to buy kits to recreate half the lot you just saw (Submitted by: Damon Landrum)

YOUR WIFE HIDES HER EMERY BOARDS AND NAIL POLISH FROM YOU (Submitted by Rick Doran)

your nickname on Ebay is “Builder”….. (Submitted by Jim Nowlin)

You can turn a modest little 1970 road runner into a mean street machine, for only a few bucks and some glue. (Submitted by Mike Dolata)

your model cars look better than the one you really own

you buy models instead of groceries. (Submitted by Tyler Christensen)

If you’ve ever carried lists of the model cars you want, the parts you need for the kits you’re working on NOW, the kits you’re going to buy, and how much they’re going to cost…all in your back pocket. (true line)

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